> It is pretty clear to me that this is equivalent to me as a display guy claiming Microsoft is blocking progress in operating system development... I'd need t

> It is pretty clear to me that this is equivalent to me as a display guy claiming Microsoft is blocking progress in operating system development... I'd need to have a very low opinion of a "display guy" to believe he was genuinely arguing in good faith, and in keeping with the spirit of HN (hallowed be its name), that the market forces an OS is subject to (like user training with regard to network effect) have any overlap with display hardware (which is unaffected by prior user uptake). Because anyone arguing that would have to be ignorant of both subjects... but why would such an ignorant person be so invested in white knighting a hardware company? Oh well, doesn't matter - my opinion was already arbitrarily settled upon for completely irrational reasons.